"An intuitive and highly interactive level of performance" (Washington Post) informs this seven-disc compilation profiling a still-youthful master of the jazz piano. Jazz Times observed that the retrospective (which also includes previously unreleased material) offers "a fresh vantage point on a body of music by enabling the listener to experience it whole. The best art requires time to release all of its revelations."

"His first piano trio … would indeed turn out to be the state of the art, challenging even Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio in terms both of its creativity and its international popularity…. Mehldau's trio began to favor more contemporary material, opening up their music to a younger, hipper generation…. [They] found their own path to the waterfall, and the resulting music stands alongside the best that has been produced in jazz in the last 25 years."—Irish Times

"Marvel at Mehldau's uncanny independence of left and right hands, and his wan way with a ballad, as heard on the celebrated 'Songs'."—The Independent